Knowledge Team Leadership

I want you to learn from my colossal team failure instead of repeating it...

"Now you can build any team any time without getting touchy-feely, investing time outside of work, going off site, or being a silver-tongued extrovert..."

Team leaders, project managers, and agile coaches worldwide are dramatically improving teamwork and results. How? By applying breakthrough discoveries about how shared responsibility really works...

And now, so can you...

You are listening to
Christopher Avery

From: Christopher Avery PhD
RE: Confidently deliver results and have more fun with any team starting now

Dear Friend and Fellow Team Leader or Member:

Do you know what people tell me is one the most frustrating things about their work today? Having to depend on others just to get our own work done...

Yes, it's true...

But each day more and more team leaders are mastering the secrets of success in shared responsibility situations. And it is changing their lives, their relationships, and their work. These secrets improve results, teams, and the lives and careers of the people they touch.

There's nothing that feels better than knowing exactly how to make a team click, and then acting on that knowledge. It sets you free. It makes you powerful. It expands your choices. You can lead. You can achieve. You can respond to anything and overcome any challenge. And you can have the work-relationships, career, and assignments of your dreams...

"Because you know exactly how to build any team any time"

Do you identify with this situation?

You share responsibility to get things done with others. You don’t report to them. They don’t report to you. But your outcome, your results, your reputation, and eventually your paycheck depend on what you do together...

Does that describe your situation?

Imagine, coming to work everyday and leading or working with a team of people who practice the highest standards of shared responsibility every day, in every situation, with everyone around them, including you...

And imagine being able to bring out that spirit of shared responsibility in every relationship at work...

It is so cool.

Now imagine you could do that day after day, year after year. What would that mean to your career?

If you're like most people, you're saying to yourself, "That would be amazing!"

What I'm talking about here is...

RESULTS, CONFIDENCE, & FUN

These are the ultimate benefits of mastering leadership under conditions of shared responsibility...

Having fun while confidently working with others to produce results together...

That really kind of sums it up, doesn't it?

And being able to do that repeatedly, based on a set of reliable principles and repeatable conversations would be GREAT. Would you agree?

To be completely fair, I've got to tell you there is one little catch, and you probably know what it is...to be able to do this you're going to need some practical knowledge and experience, and of course you know the most expensive experience is always your own...

So let me ask you a question:

If you wanted to know how to effectively build, lead, and work in teams and collaborations, who would you turn to?

Your neighbor?

Your employer?

Your fellow employees?

The obvious answer is... none of these options

The best answer is to learn from people who've already mastered these principles and successfully taught thousands of others to apply and master them...

Hi, my name is Christopher Avery. You may have heard of me. I’ve been studying, myth-busting, and teaching the art and science of building and leading teams for 20 years.

Do you find it challenging to consistently gain team members' attention, align around a common objective, elicit commitment, and work effectively together in an environment of trust, goodwill, and cooperation?

Do you find it increasingly challenging to get things done with others in this complex and everything-is-hyper-urgent environment?

Do you have too many priorities with too much urgency, too many assignments, little or no budget for travel, or time for meetings?

Are you and the people you rely on spread too thin, across too many times zones and cultures, and with your schedules impossibly compressed?

What a blur. I bet sometimes it feels like a good day when you just haven't lost any ground.

Everywhere I travel, professionals tell me the challenges to building responsible teams are increasing.

Well I have good news. The principles I uncovered, mastered, and have successfully taught to thousands are more valuable today than even before.

Oh yes. I promised to tell you how you can
Learn from my colossal failure...

Fifteen years ago I was so sure I knew a lot about building teams and developing teamwork. I knew the scientific literature on groups and teams. I even added to the research with my dissertation on technology commercialization and cross-functional teamwork among scientists, engineers, marketers, and managers.

Not only that, I was an experienced manager before returning to graduate school (yes, I have real-world experience) and a seasoned corporate trainer and consultant. Besides, the project team leadership training I co-designed to teach software project leaders how to build and lead teams was becoming so popular I found myself the co-owner of a rapidly growing company.

Our training was in demand because we could teach technical people (who didn’t really want to go to “people” training) how to understand, orient, build, participate in, and lead project teams.

Then it happened.

First one, then a second, and eventually a third business partner left my team amid conflict, strife, and turmoil.

It was expensive in too many ways. Lost friendships, lost business partners, stock buy-out payments, and lost company performance and momentum...

Not only that, it was downright embarrassing too (consider the irony of knocking on prospect’s doors claiming team building expertise when my own team was failing miserably)...

Then I experienced one of the most important insights of my life...

I realized maybe I didn’t know everything there was to know about teams and teamwork. Maybe I had more to learn about how to approach, orient, build, participate in, and lead teams. I admitted that maybe the research was incomplete, and maybe there was plenty more to be discovered about how to understand, build, and lead great teams...

So I set out to learn anew...

I re-examined every team I'd worked with, and interviewed every successful project team I could. What I learned during the next few years altered the course of my life. Looking back, it seems so basic, so fundamental, so simple, yet no one else was using it, teaching it, or writing about it.

Everywhere I looked I saw one fundamental principle accounted for the difference between truly great team builders—great project leaders, great managers, and great partners—and those who were average, struggling, or failing...

The difference was how they dealt with personal and shared responsibility. Effective teams felt it. That is, on effective teams, if one person dropped the ball, another would pick it up, and if one person made a mistake or fell behind, another person would come lend a hand. Low- and average-performing teams lacked this sense of shared responsibility. On these teams if one person dropped the ball or made a mistake other's would snicker or call their friends and joke about it...

I wanted to understand where that sense of shared responsibility
comes from, and how to generate it when it isn't there naturally...

Boy, did I find what I was looking for...

I uncovered a little-known on-going "study" about how people respond to problems and challenges in their lives.This discovery—now called the Responsibility Process™—helped me understand exactly why and how my own team failed (the humbling truth was because I failed my team). Learning and applying the Responsibility Process™ dramatically accelerated my own ability to build teams. And it dramatically accelerated my ability to teach others how to build teams. In a few short years I become a leading team-building expert...

That's because I employed a unique, fundamental, and proven approach which delivers results time after time...

I could show people why they failed under conditions of shared responsibility (i.e., teams). And I could show them why and how to systematically take responsibility for succeeding when they depend on others over whom they had no control.

Enough of me and my story...

I can't blame you if you are thinking that I'm claiming to have found the magic bullet, and that if you just believe in this magic bullet you will be a great and wonderful leader and will never face another team building challenge again...

But nothing could be further from the truth.

The truth is that learning and adopting this powerful tool doesn't make your team building problems go away at all. Instead it puts you in a position of power to solve them fast . How? Because:

You will understand why a team does or doesn't generate a felt sense of shared responsibility.
You will have a handful of diagnostic and interpersonal "tools" you can use to make an incredible difference should you choose.
And you will know there is always some effective action you can take to build any team any time.

You see the issue isn't that good people want to avoid responsibility. 99% of people have no idea how responsibility—and especially shared responsibility—actually works. They don't know how to effectively share responsibility even when they want to, and they aren't aware when they are avoiding responsibility or that they are limiting their results and career by doing so...

My book detailing what I learned is in it's 9th printing. Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility is used by business schools and corporate training departments around the world. It remains a steady seller. My publisher just raised its price. And Fortune magazine, in their 2006 issue devoted to teamwork, called Teamwork Is An Individual Skill the only teamwork book worth reading. Seriously. (An Amazon search on the keyword "teamwork" produced 52,242 titles.)

I read your book on a flight home from Oslo. I loved it! I must have recommended it a dozen times in the last week. ~Mike Cohn, MountainGoatSoftware.com

So I'm on a mission...

"I've got some great news for you today!"

I want to personally invite you to participate in something very special.

It's quite unique, and very unlike anything you may believe to be similar.

Here's exactly how you can learn and understand how shared responsibility works to keep teams stuck or propel them forward so you can be a great team leader or member...

Introducing ...

> > > the new 2-day intensive format you demanded < < <

I recommend you crawl over broken glass, walk on hot coals, and
swim through shark-infested waters to get into this event
— it's that important!

You will learn exactly how to understand, orient, build, and lead any team any time...

I promise.

But wait. Before we go any further, please consider your response to this question...

Where will you take your career when you can confidently understand, orient, build, and lead any team any time?

While you consider your answer, read what graduates say about their lives before and after Knowledge Team Leadership...

Outstanding seminar. By far the best of any company sponsored training I have attended.

Brent Hoffman
Software Development Manager
KAL Tencor

...a huge difference in my ability to orient and lead teams, in my agile software development consulting practice, and in my life.

Dear Christopher,

Your training on how shared responsibility works in the mind of every human being and what to do about it to build powerful teams is the best I've ever seen. I thought I knew a lot about leading agile project teams before attending Knowledge Team Leadership. Now I know so much more.

Knowledge Team Leadership, and especially the principles of Responsibility Redefined™, have made a huge difference in my ability to orient and lead teams that deliver results, in my agile software development consulting practice, and in my life.

Thank you Christopher for investing your life in understanding and teaching this information.

Ashley Johnson
Co-Founder
Gemba Systems
Dallas, Texas

It opened my eyes...

Now is a perfect opportunity to let you know again how valuable I thought this training was. It opened my eyes in several ways, and I sense that it did the same thing for several other folks in our office. You did a wonderful job conducting the training, and your enthusiasm and knowledge of the subject matter was very inspiring.

It was a very worthwhile experience.

Amanda
KLA-Tencor

In five years these powerful teams have delivered almost every project run on-time and on-budget and employee retention has been excellent.

Five years after attending this seminar, the successes continue in my life and work because of three practices I learned.

First, I'm much better at owning the results I create in teams-both good and bad. When I take that kind of responsibility, then I correct and improve faster, as do others around me. I catch myself blaming or making excuses and instead ask myself what I need to do to own it and effectively move on. It has changed how I manage because I hear the difference and am able to reward the people who are truly taking responsibility . I spend less time worrying about people who are good at making excuses. I just stop investing in folks who aren't taking responsibility. And, I invest in people who do. Your model of personal responsibility has had a tremendous work impact because I seared it into my brain and recognize the difference in myself and others. I even use the information with my kids.

Second, I no longer view a team in terms of one leader and a bunch of followers. That's a hierarchical view. In fact, you teach leadership through membership and membership through leadership. I remember when someone in class actually said "We've been here for two-and-a-half days learning about team membership, when are you going to talk about team leadership?" That's when I realized powerful teams are composed of many leaders. Each and every individual is called upon to lead at different times and for different reasons. And, as a manager, if I reserve all leadership opportunities for myself, then I will end up with only followers - grudging followers - and we won't be a powerful team. This has made my teams in the last five years much stronger.

Third, I'm much more in touch with people in their job than I ever was before. I put little thought into what someone got personally from coming to work. It didn't much matter to me. But it has stuck with me ever sense. I learned how to sit down and ask people what they wanted to get out of the project - with everybody, not just the team lead! I know what makes them excited to get up in the morning and come to work. My relationships have been much better since that. Managing relationships effectively and productively is critical to the workplace. You may not be able to quantify it, but you know it's expensive to productivity when relationships are broken. You don't get those types of things in management classes.

In five years these powerful teams have delivered almost every project run on-time and on-budget and employee retention has been excellent.

Dale Legband,
Director, R&D
KLA-Tencor

I can make that team successful no matter what players are on it and no matter what role I play...

My mindset now is that I can make that team successful no matter what players are on it and no matter what role I play. We even turned around a failing manager and department by using the tools I learned at Knowledge Team Leadership.

Clare Huspeni
VP Customer Care
Charter Communications

I attended Knowledge Team Leadership with my department. We left immediately more effective and efficient.

Our most obvious and lasting change is how we keep each other informed, address emerging issues and make decisions.

Now, years after we attended, and even though team members have turned over, our meetings and communications are highly respectful, more open, and better focused. We make better and faster decisions and people operate with greater clarity and a sense of alignment.

And, the benefits continue. One of my team leads who didn’t even attend with us still goes to your website today to pull tips off of it to help the process of developing teams and pulling team members together.

Jeff H. Zon
Director IT
Whole Foods Market Corporation

...made an incredible difference in terms of how these folks work together...

We took over 200 employees in one division through Partnerwerks' program over the course of a year. We have been very, very happy with the content of Partnerwerks program and model as well as with their service.

This process has made an incredible difference in terms of how these folks work together in ways that are very, very different from how they started out. Qualitative differences have to do with vastly improved
meetings, in terms of

how much work is done,
how much people participate,
how long meetings take, and
the extent to which people are able to make decisions quickly, carefully, thoughtfully and productively.

We certainly have experienced a significantly increased rate of participation and involvement in the division. Folks feel more valued, i.e., that what they have to say might actually be of interest to other folks.... Morale has improved in a lot of ways and the expectations of folks in the organization have continued to increase. They feel not only more empowered but more entitled. This has them being consumers of management and leadership attention units, so they are much more articulate about what isn’t working.

Dr. Tracy Gibbons
OD Specialist
Advanced Micro Devices
Santa Clara, CA

Results have been dramatic and extremely positive. ...we met or exceeded all our objectives. But more importantly, those who participated in the project have really grown as individuals and as coworkers.

Dear Christopher,

It's pretty clear to me that we'd be out of business if we hadn't done this work with Partnerwerks!

The market offered DTM a 9-month window to complete a 15-month development project. Worse, there was disagreement among design team members about whether this project was the best use of company resources. We knew that our challenge was not just project management, but a team challenge.

We hired Partnerwerks to orient, train and monitor our project team because we needed people working in the same direction, with high energy and high trust. I picked Partnerwerks for your focus on getting people to be responsible for and own the team process, rather than follow a cookbook approach to teaming. It wasn’t a ropes course.

When we came away, the people owned the solution.

Results have been dramatic and extremely positive. From a company financial and product viewpoint, we met or exceeded all our objectives. But more importantly, those who participated in the project have really grown as individuals and as coworkers.

Partnerwerks' work remains alive long after the project.

We are the best we’ve ever been at being collectively focused and directed without a lot of interpersonal chaos. Our meetings are effective and efficient. That in itself has made a huge difference in the way we conduct our business. Everyone goes to the meetings they need to go to and trust others to have the meetings they need to have. We trust each other to progress and communicate. We trust people in meetings when we can't attend. Hidden agendas have really been minimized.

Even people who were not on the core team and were not trained by Partnerwerks picked up on the environment rapidly and fit right in. The "road map" we generated is working well for us.

Craig Wadham,
VP Engineering
DTM Corporation
Austin, Texas

consider myself privileged...

Thank you for spending three days with us sharing your knowledge and passion. I have so much respect for you and what you've created and consider myself privileged to meet you and learn from you. I hope that the principles in this workshop can assist the people in our organization in looking at themselves, identifying the changes that need to made, and then looking outward in becoming more effective both individually and as a team member.

Shannon Newell
AT&T Wireless

changed my perceptions permanently and will aid me significantly...

Knowledge Team Leadership changed my perceptions permanently and will aid me significantly in my personal and business development as well as my ability to deliver to my clients.

Karen Bard, Client Application Consultant, Landmark Graphics Corp.

~ read even more comments from students at the end of this page ~

Now let me tell you all about

By attending you get...

	2 full days of intensive hands-on proven-on-the-front-lines leadership skill-building designed and facilitated personally. We'll study from 8:30am to 9pm the first day (yes, 9pm) and 8:30am to 5pm the second...
	A practical "lab" experience. The non-optional lab from 5pm until 9pm on Day 1 is a self-organizing group study session that you can begin and accomplish over dinner with others. The way to demonstrate to me that you gain new insights about team leadership is by immediate application followed by debrief the next day.
	A uniquely valuable "mental-image-based" participant manual containing your customized notes. Many graduates report referencing theirs for years afterwards.
	Certificate of Completion for 20 classroom hours. Participants who fully engage in the entire intensive from beginning to end will receive a certificate for 20 (not 16) hours that you can use to claim PDU's or continuing education credits from your professional association.
	Leadership skills based on what works (I call this "is-based") as opposed to "should-based" models requiring everyone to read the same book or attend the same training.

	Your own copy of *Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility* to reference and reinforce your continued learning after the intensive.
	A copy of The Leader's Guide supplement to Teamwork Is An Individual Skill for role-specific guidance about how to apply the principles in the book (and training intensive).
	Personal invitation to a private 90-minute follow-up teleconference with Christopher Avery and your class-mates about 2 weeks following the live session. You will have the unique opportunity to ask questions after having an opportunity to apply your new leadership skills on the job.
	and more...

But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Wait until you see how much you will learn...

Here's just some of what you will learn at Knowledge Team Leadership...

Discover for yourself why you would want to take 100% responsibility for the productivity of your team, no matter what your role... and how it is directly related to your success

Expose the 5 smelliest myths about team development so you can steer clear of them and leverage what works instead

Access the 3 sources of power available to any knowledge team leader or member and learn to access the best one at the best time

Apply the Responsibility Process™ when things go wrong so you can get the team moving forward again immediately

Discover, practice, and call-up at will the required mindset for knowledge team success so you can build any team any time

Welcome chaos, breakthrough, and improvisation because you'll know how to respond to change for the good of your team and project

Know which decisions are yours to make, which are others, and which are collective decisions so you master the essentials of consensus-building, empowerment, and team trust for amazing team dynamics

Know how to get others to show you their most responsible behavior rapidly so you'll have confidence in your peer leadership abilities

Get clear about what consensus really means and why is it so darn important to teams and to your own success

Discover what synergy meant before Dilbert and how to re-capture that meaning so the output of any team on which you serve exceeds the collective input

Apply 1 simple test for individual decision making on high performing project teams and enjoy knowing that your teammates are all acting in each other's best interest at all times

Master a proven method for orienting and re-orienting knowledge teams so you can confidently give any team the best chance to reach high performance

Practice the 5 highest leverage activities you can do to build any team any time and be amazingly effective and efficient with your team building time

Learn the keys to building your team without taking time away from work for team building so you don't have to sacrifice productive time together

Rethink how you define a team (by it's members or by the collective task). It will change forever how you view team performance

Generate a sharp focus on the task as the reason for the team in order to get everyone on the team feeling like they are in the same boat together

Apply a specification for knowing when the team really understands it's scope as a team for powerful alignment, i.e., everyone going in the same direction

Understand 4 levels of problem-solving maturity so you can tap into the best level to support team collaboration and problem-solving

Use the 2 magic components of task clarity as a natural team builder

Adopt the practice of discovering and framing outcomes for unprecedented levels of team member buy-in and commitment on your teams

Discover why team member motivation is far more critical to project team success than technical skill and expertise so that you can master dealing with issues of peer motivation

Understand the surprising truth about high-performance teams and having all the right people with all the right skills, so that you can excel with any team you have

Apply the magic glue of "outcome interdependence" to facilitate an immediate and organic change in the attitudes and behaviors of team members towards one another and the project

Always be able to discover what’s in it for you to work with this team on this project

How to predict early on the level to which any team will perform, and how to change it if you want to

How to discover and amplify anyone’s motivation for greater buy-in and commitment, even if you have no access to carrots and sticks

Understand and master the universal keys to motivating peers who don’t report to you

Create contexts that drive healthy team dynamics of trust, respect for individuals, and goodwill and cooperation

Determine how to trust just right in any situation with anyone for the rest of your life for amazing self-confidence and freedom

Exercise the Waterline Principle for high levels of trust, avoiding the wrong mistakes and making the right ones, correcting, learning, and forgiving

Make team agreements and ground rules that stick so you can move fast

Learn just what to do when people violate agreements and ground rules they helped make so that you can get the agreements back in place and have higher levels of trust, confidence, and mutual respect

Employ 4 Steps for cleaning up broken agreements, relationships mistakes, and other team "oops" so that you can get back on track quickly without losing an ounce of trust

Unleash the awesome self-organizing magic of an aspirational target so that the team needs no external motivation or management supervision

Discover and develop the single most powerful competency you can demonstrate as a leader so you can dramatically increase your value

Understand the natural goal discovery process in a team so that you can know when to push and when to trust that the goal will come

Internalize 3 never-fail formulas for breaking through conflict so that you can remain calm and focused when facing the heat

Understand and capitalize on the huge inventory of talents, skills, characteristics, preferences, strengths, and abilities that others bring to your team

Appreciate more those most different from you, for they are your greatest opportunity for leverage, innovation and discovery

Realize that roles emerge naturally on effective teams based on what needs to be done and you'll have a whole new appreciating for emergent change

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Know how to see every team member as a go-to person so you'll always have somewhere to turn for help and assistance

Understand the eternal role of improvisation on every high-performance team so that you can turn every team in a “MacGyver” team

View others as levers for your own talents so that you see personal reward in expanding the vision and community

Make team meetings the Long Lever of the team because that's where the synergy happens

Discover the 1 thing that differentiates a team meeting from other types of meetings so you can excel in every team meeting

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Get clear about why you should never run your own meetings so that when you do and you don't get the collaborative results you want, you'll know just what to do to correct

Adopt a simple, portable, and complete meeting system that works every time so you never have to host a ineffective meeting again

Apply tools and principles for virtual team meeting success.

Understand and practice the power of “shared space” to drive collaborative communications and results

Turn conflict in breakthrough over and over and over again for higher and higher levels of team performance

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Learn why criticism kills teams and what to do instead so people still get the useful feedback they want, need, and deserve for improved performance

Determine if the heat of conflict will produce light or just more heat, and how to fuel it responsibly for optimal breakthrough

Provide effective feedback and communicate expectations without criticizing or diminishing team mates

. . . and so much more

You will develop the mind set and confidence to rapidly address knowledge team leadership issues in real time. In fact, if you are willing to work half as hard as I do for your success during these two days, your results will come and you will be amazed at how quickly time flew by, how much you learned, and how confident you are about addressing any team issue any time. Guaranteed*.

But stop right there for a second. Have you considered all of the personal and professional benefits you can gain by studying Knowledge Team Leadership with me?

Check out these life-changing benefits

With a Knowledge Team Leadership skill set, you can expect to:

	Get your own work done easier, faster, and better when dependent on others
	Be a much better team member or leader
	Get things done across boundaries
	Put yourself in position to be promoted
	Gain respect
	Know what to do to move any collaboration, partnership or team forward
	Overcome any team challenge
	Demonstrate competence and confidence about getting to breakthrough when confronted with differences and conflict
	Get past upsets and frustrations faster, more naturally, and with less residue
	Surround yourself with team members who practice responsibility
	Demonstrate people and organizational savvy especially when and where authority and process are fuzzy
	Know how and when to gently contribute or, if necessary, take charge to get folks aligned and moving forward
	And more!

I could go on and on. Let me sum it up with this:
I want you to claim these 3 ultimate benefits & lead others to claim them too...

1. Results

Know you will reliably produce results with any group because you understand exactly what to do when you share responsibility with others to get something done...

2. Confidence

When you understand exactly how shared responsibility works, you can be confident that the only thing that stops you in teams is you—and that you know what to do about that. You are larger than any team problem. You can overcome any team challenge.

3. Fun

Being a part of a great team is never boring, dull, or a strain. It's always rewarding and feels effortless even though you are intensely focused and working hard. You deserve that don't you?

Wow. Can you believe it?
Just imagine how effective and powerful you will be when
you put this information to use for yourself and others ...

Here are even more comments from
Knowledge Team Leadership graduates

an unparalleled opportunity to create high-performance teams...

Thanks for a great class! If I wanted to significantly improve my team's performance, I'd call Christopher Avery first. Your knowledge of the field, extensive research, Responsibility Process™, and effective teaching style provide an unparalleled opportunity to create high-performance teams.

Jim Highsmith ( award-winning author of three best-selling books on Agile development)
Sr. VP & Director, Agile Software Development
Cutter Consortium

a great learning experience...

This was an excellent class that pulled together some things that I knew with new things that filled in gaps. Overall it was a great learning experience and I expect to use the knowledge and experience from this class on my next team.

Rick Smith, Valtech, Dallas, TX

well worth the time even though I was quite skeptical at first...

Very much enjoyed the course. Thought it was well worth the time even though I was quite skeptical at first.

William Howard
Research Scientist
Kla Tencor

will help me excel in any team setting...

Knowledge Team Leadership gave me skills and techniques that will help me excel in any team setting. These skills cross personal and professional boundaries to enrich one's entire life.

Frank Branham
Project Manager
Heartland Payment Systems

I am not easily impressed with training...

Thank you for the terrific session. I am not easily impressed with training -- probably my background in development and delivery make me a tough critic. Your session is very, very good in content, design, and delivery. The material is a just right blend of core concepts and practical processes to help individuals prime themselves for success in today's unique work environments. Very well done. I was particularly impressed with the amount and type of practices included. As a former training designer I know how difficult and important it is to include effective practice opportunities for students, particularly in the soft skills areas that promote behavior and mindset change. Your practices were great. So thanks again, good job, and I will be recommending Knowledge Team Leadership to my colleagues both inside my organization and out.

Tammy Dietz
IT Training Manager
AT&T Wireless
Seattle, WA

Extremely effective...

I just have to tell you that I tried to explain the Responsibility Process™ to my 23 year old daughter and her friend and it worked just great! They are studying at a program for HR-people at the university and my daughter's friend was so inspired that she considers to change her topic for a major paper. Now I have translated the words of the process into Swedish plus the notes that I took during the seminar and I will use this as my own background material for a demonstration later on with my group at work.

I had one afternoon free on Thursday after the seminar, sitting at Stanstead airport waiting. So I went through the notes and tried to translate what I found to be the most relevant parts with my group in mind. I'm thinking of using one theme at each weekly meeting as an extra to the today's agenda. I will introduce the Meeting Management rotation. Great stuff. I love it!

What really, really stayed with me after the seminar is the part on expansion and win-win thinking. I have had the opportunity to demonstrate this different perspective in some strategic discussions with my boss and the top politicians. Extremely effective and ground-winning. They hardly even notice what's going on, but suddenly their thinking is much more positive and there are new and interesting ways of getting ahead.

THANK YOU!!!

Palaemona Mörner
Nyköpings, Sweden

"Okay Christopher, I'm ready to study Knowledge Team Leadership with you. When and where is my next opportunity?"

When: October 21-22, 2008

Where: Boulder, CO, USA

Tuition: $1395

Yes Christopher
I want to study "Knowledge Team Leadership" with you, October 21-22, in Boulder, CO, USA

I understand the tuition is $1395.

I understand you will serve a continental breakfast, snacks, and lunch, and that my travel, lodging, and other meals (including perhaps a group dinner for our study session) will be on my own.

I understand I may never see this opportunity again.

I understand when I click the link below I will be transferred to your secure shopping cart where I will complete my registration using MasterCard, Visa, American Express, or PayPal.

I understand you will be in touch with further details after I register.

"Hey Christopher, this is a tremendous deal, what gives?"

Great question, and the answer is... We do.

We absolutely believe in over-delivering in everything we do.

And the best way to over-deliver is to give, give, give.

By doing so we create an ever-so-obvious value for the money we ask in return, we just think it's good business to treat people the way we want to be treated...that makes sense, doesn't it?

By registering for Knowledge Team Leadership today, you'll be learning some amazing information that is shared by very few people on the planet. You will be helping us get this message out to more and more people. You'll be adding value to yourself and to those around you many times over.

"My Personal Rock-Solid Guarantee To You"

I have a rule in all my business activities: I don't want any unhappy customers, so here's my personal and rock-solid guarantee to you...

You will leave Knowledge Team Leadership with clarity about how to immediately create greater wins for yourself and your teams or we'll gladly make it right including returning your money. In fact, I really want to know if you've participated fully in all of the sessions and exercises and still don't understand exactly what to do to effectively leverage yourself in environments of shared responsibility. This learning event is effective and powerful for members, leaders, or both together—we've seen the results year after year. For intact teams of three or more, you will so accelerate your work progress that the two days away to attend this event will be made up within a week or we'll gladly make it right including returning your money.

Please Note: Space Is limited
This event should fill soon

As you can see, it's in your best interest to register today...

I'm excited to bring this learning intensive to you, and know you'll be delighted with your experience.

Sincerely,

Christopher Avery
President, Partnerwerks Inc.

P.S. If you find leading or working in teams challenging, you cannot afford to miss this learning opportunity. If you've ever looked around for teamwork and collaboration training, you already know down deep you in your heart what a great experience I've put together here for you. Others teach you what you and others should do in teams... I show you exactly why other people do what they do and why and how you can respond to build any team any time. It all comes with my 100% satisfaction guarantee, and you get a certificate of completion for 20 hours of PDU's. Get registered now.

P.P.S. A special note to cynics and skeptics. I don't mind a healthy dose of skepticism, but cynics need not register. If you are being "sent" by a manager to be fixed and intend to show up resentful and toxic, please just don't come. Take two days off instead. Or, please show this to your manager: This training only works for the willing. Don't send me your problem to fix Register and attend yourself instead. However, if you are mildly skeptical (as the typical science and engineering professional often is) but open to new discoveries and insights, then that makes you a volunteer, not a victim, and you are indeed welcome. Bring your skepticism, your questions, and your willingness to learn. Please register now to reserve your seat.

P.P.P.S. Please remember, this session will fill up soon, and I don't know when the next will be scheduled, so be good to yourself, make the right decision and take action to achieve your goals now, your greater success is waiting for you. Register right now while this is fresh on your mind.

P.P.P.P.S. If you need approval before registering I have three words for you. Do It Now. Time is of the essence.

Christopher Avery - Partnerwerks Inc.
P.O. Box 1046
Comfort, TX 78013 - Phone: +1 830.995.4853
Email: ChristopherAvery @ ChristopherAvery.com